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To: cogitator
Given the highest possible resolution

Pray tell what this resolution is. More then 800 years or so?

139 posted on 04/26/2007 11:30:05 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: AndyTheBear
Pray tell what this resolution is. More then 800 years or so?

Definitely more than that, but I can't tell you accurately (that would take more research effort than I can spare at this time). But... when you're looking at Paleozoic events, there are no sediment cores that go back that far. (Oldest sediments on the seafloor are about 200 million years old, which is lower Jurassic, i.e. Mesozoic). In the Paleozoic, paleoclimatologists look at geological formations. If they could resolve events at 50,000 year resolution (which is meaningful for periods lasting 65 million years), I'd be impressed.

141 posted on 04/27/2007 7:21:27 AM PDT by cogitator
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